Just little details kept this very good movie from being a GREAT movie

Rating: 8/10 (9 August 2013)

Good choice of actors (for the most part). Excellent soundtrack and sound effects. Astonishing visual effects. Mindblowing action scenes. A hell of a plot, and a little bit of humor make 'Pacific Rim' a more than good film. But it's just a few little details that keep it from being a truly great film, and these are:
-Do the two scientists need to act so stupid? They contribute enormously to the thickening of the plot and to the ultimate triumph of humanity over the kaiju, but they're over acting too much in my opinion and they act to be super nerds too much.
-If the Russians and the three oriental rangers are so damn good, why are they killed in the first fight they participate in? They clearly weren't going to make it until the end of the film, but if they're portrayed as living legends in the war against the sea monsters, then I felt that they should have won at least one fight each, even if it was a thirty second on screen fight to give their deaths more meaning as to what our heroes where up against.
-The ending, why was it so predicable? You could see that Raleigh and Mako were going to live. It would have been so much more moving if Raleigh evacuated Mako from the jaegger and sacrificed himself to save humanity. It would have given the film and tremendous ending.
-When Ron Perlman's character cuts his way out of the baby kaiju that swallow him, isn't it a copy of Tommy Lee Jones's character blasting his way out of the bad guys guts in Men In Black? It was funny, though.
Even with all this said, it's a really enjoyable movie and I recommend it to anybody who likes action and epic stories. I give it an 8 out of 10.